Grid Operations, Integration, and Infrastructure

Montañés, Cristina Crespo, Will Gorman, Andrew D Mills, and James Hyungkwan Kim. Keep it short: Exploring the impacts of configuration choices on the recent economics of solar-plus-battery and wind-plus-battery hybrid energy plants. 2021.

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Seel, Joachim, Dev Millstein, Andrew D Mills, Mark Bolinger, and Ryan H Wiser. "Plentiful electricity turns wholesale prices negative." Advances in Applied Energy 4 (2021).

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Mills, Andrew D, Joachim Seel, Dev Millstein, James Hyungkwan Kim, Seongeun Jeong, Cody Warner, and Will Gorman. Solar-to-Grid: Trends in System Impacts, Reliability, and Market Value in the United States with Data Through 2020. 2021.

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Seel, Joachim, Cody Warner, and Andrew D Mills. "Influence of Business Models on PV-Battery Dispatch Decisions and Market Value." Advances in Applied Energy (2021).

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Kahrl, Fredrich, James Hyungkwan Kim, Andrew D Mills, Ryan H Wiser, Cristina Crespo Montañés, and Will Gorman. Variable Renewable Energy Participation in U.S. Ancillary Services Markets: Economic Evaluation and Key Issues. 2021.

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Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, Cody Warner, and Dana Robson. Utility-Scale Solar, 2021 Edition: Empirical Trends in Deployment, Technology, Cost, Performance, PPA Pricing, and Value in the United States. 2021.

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Kim, James Hyungkwan, Andrew D Mills, Ryan H Wiser, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Cristina Crespo Montañés, and Eric O’Shaughnessy. "Project developer options to enhance the value of solar electricity as solar and storage penetrations increase." Applied Energy 304 (2021).

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Lin, Jiang, Nikit Abhyankar, Gang He, Xu Liu, and Shengfei Yin. Enhancing grid flexibility under scenarios of a renewable-dominant power system in China. 2021.

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Bolinger, Mark, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Ryan H Wiser, Seongeun Jeong, Joachim Seel, Cody Warner, and Bentham Paulos. Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Installed and Proposed Projects. 2021.

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Millstein, Dev, Ryan H Wiser, Andrew D Mills, Mark Bolinger, Joachim Seel, and Seongeun Jeong. "Solar and wind grid system value in the United States: The effect of transmission congestion, generation profiles, and curtailment." Joule (2021).

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Rand, Joseph, Mark Bolinger, Ryan H Wiser, Seongeun Jeong, and Bentham Paulos. Queued Up: Characteristics of Power Plants Seeking Transmission Interconnection As of the End of 2020. 2021.

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Gorman, Will, Cristina Crespo Montañés, Andrew D Mills, James Hyungkwan Kim, Dev Millstein, and Ryan H Wiser. "Are coupled renewable-battery power plants more valuable than independently sited installations?" Energy Economics 107 (2021).

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Hu, Junfeng, Qingyou Yan, Fredrich Kahrl, Xu Liu, Peng Wang, and Jiang Lin. "Evaluating the ancillary services market for large-scale renewable energy integration in China’s northeastern power grid." Utilities Policy 69 (2021) 101179.

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Mills, Andrew D, Joachim Seel, Dev Millstein, James Hyungkwan Kim, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Yuhan Wang, Seongeun Jeong, and Ryan H Wiser. Solar-to-Grid: Trends in System Impacts, Reliability, and Market Value in the United States with Data Through 2019. 2021.

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Mills, Andrew D, Ryan H Wiser, Dev Millstein, Juan Pablo Carvallo, Will Gorman, Joachim Seel, and Seongeun Jeong. "The impact of wind, solar, and other factors on the decline in wholesale power prices in the United States." Applied Energy (2020).

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Carvallo, Juan Pablo, Nan Zhang, Benjamin Leibowicz, Thomas Carr, Maury Galbraith, and Peter H Larsen. Implications of a regional resource adequacy program on utility integrated resource planning: Study for the Western United States. 2020.

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Bolinger, Mark, Joachim Seel, Dana Robson, and Cody Warner. Utility-Scale Solar Data Update: 2020 Edition. 2020.

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Mills, Andrew D, and Pía Rodriguez. "A simple and fast algorithm for estimating the capacity credit of solar and storage." Energy 210 (2020).

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Wiser, Ryan H, Mark Bolinger, Will Gorman, Joseph Rand, Seongeun Jeong, Joachim Seel, Cody Warner, and Bentham Paulos. "Hybrid Power Plants: Status of Installed and Proposed Projects." 2020.

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Seel, Joachim, Andrew D Mills, Cody Warner, Bentham Paulos, and Ryan H Wiser. Impacts of High Variable Renewable Energy Futures on Electric-Sector Decision Making: Demand-Side Effects. 2020.

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